AN INSANE ELEPHANT.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2098, 13 November 1880, Page 3

AN INSANE ELEPHANT.

A correspondent of the “ Lucknow Times ” writes : of Eyzabad had fine sport. A mad elephant, a splendid old tusker, found his way into Eyzabad. On his route he destroyed large quantities of grain, which lay piled up on the sides of the road, overthrew several carts and ekkas, and is reported to have killed several men. I can only vouch for the death of one man, a fakir, whose dead body I saw carried away to be thrown into tho river, who, although warned, would not, in his foolhardiness, got out of the excited animal’s way. A blow from one of tho ponderous feet crushed the life out of the poor man at once. Soon the news of his doings spread through the station like wildfire, and hundreds of natives sallied out to see him, with and without old guns and bludgeons. Their yelling made him raving mad, and he frequently and furious'y rushed at them, and nothing could have saved some of them but for his movements being hampered by an enormously thick iron chain which wai round one of his legs, and -which appeared constantly to entangle itself with Hs feet. In the meanwhile the Kotwal had sent for a few experienced and plucky pehlwans from tho commissariat, and for two sowareo camels with bells round their necks, to help to capture him by driving him into a bsgh, in which a network of iron chains and strong ropes bad been prepared to entrap and secure him. After a considerable time had elapsed he was frightened into taking refuge in a tope of mango trees, and was again made a prisoner of.”